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PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool.. 

 September 1870, Published at 18s. 



Contents : — Report on Steam-boiler Explosions ; — Report of the Committee on 

 the Hamatite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland ; — Report on the Sedimentary 

 Deposits of the River Onny ; — Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ;— Re- 

 port on the practicability of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; — Sixth Report 

 on Kent's Cavern ; — Third Report on Underground Temperature ; — Second Report of 

 the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of Mountain-Limestone 

 Corals; — Second Report on the Stability, Propulsion, and Seagoing Qualities of 

 Ships ; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ;— Report on the Treatment and Utili- 

 zation of Sewage ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1869- 70 ; — Report 

 on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; — Report on Tidal Ob- 

 servations ; — On a new Steam-power Meter ; — Report on the Action of the Methyl 

 and Allied Series; — Report of the Rainfall Committee ;— Report on the Heat 

 generated in the Blood in the Process of Arterialization ; — Report on the best 

 means of providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Huxley's Address, and Re^ 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY- FIRST MEETING, at Edinburgh, 

 August 1871, Published at 16s. 



Contents : — Seventh Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Fourth Report on Under- 

 ground Temperature : — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71 ; — 

 Fifth Report on the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ; — Report 

 of the Committee appointed for the purpose of urging on Her Majesty's Government 

 the expediency of arranging and tabulating the results of the approaching Census- 

 in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as to admit of 

 ready and effective comparison ; — Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose 

 of Superintending the Publication of Abstracts of Chemical Papers; — Report of the 

 Committee for discussing Observations of Lunar Objects suspected of change ; — 

 Second Provisional Report on the Thermal Conductivity of Metals ; — Report on 

 the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Third Report on the British Fossil Corals ; — 

 Report on the Heat generated in the Blood during the Process of Arterialization ; 

 — Report of the Committee appointed to consider the subject of Physiological 

 Experimentation ; — Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical Com- 

 pounds ; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of 

 Mountain-Limestone Corals ; — Second Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions ; — Re- 

 port on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on promoting the Foun- 

 dation of Zoological Statious in different parts of the World ; — Preliminary Report 

 on the Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlorine ;— Report on the practica- 

 bility of establishing a 'Close Time' for the protection of Indigenous Animals ; 

 — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Report on the best means of providing for 

 a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Report on Tidal Observations. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Thomson's Address,. 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SECOND MEETING, at Brighton, 

 August 1872, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Report on the Gaussian Constants for the Year 1829 ; — Second Sup- 

 plementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands ; — Report of the 

 Committee for Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— 

 Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of 

 Weights and Measures ; — Eighth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report on promoting the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Fourth Report 



